Patents by Inventor Rolf Vollmer

Rolf Vollmer has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20180331589
    Abstract: A permanent magnet having end surfaces and an envelope curve shaped as a biconvex lens having first and second convex portions, magnetization running in an arcuate manner along the first convex portion between a north pole and a south poles. The permanent magnet runs along the second convex portion in an arcuate manner, and at least one of the magnet's end surfaces within the envelope curve has a connection surface adapted for connecting with a connection device by fusing or by positive engagement. The rotor is preferably pressed onto the shaft of the rotor after the connection device is formed around a connection surface of the permanent magnets by injection molding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erich Bott, Reiner Seufert, Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 10122230
    Abstract: A permanent-field armature for an electrical machine includes an armature body having internal magnet pockets, and a plurality of permanent magnets having a magnetization for generating a magnetic field and disposed in the magnetic pockets in one-to-one correspondence. The armature body guides the magnetic field between the magnet pockets and magnetic poles of the armature on an armature surface. Each magnet pocket is formed for guiding the magnetic field in a material which has at least one area having a magnetic anisotropy with an easy axis and a hard axis of magnetizing capability, with the easy axis being aligned in parallel relation to or at least at an angle of less than 25° to a magnetization direction of the magnetization of the permanent magnet disposed in the magnet pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Fischer, Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 10097055
    Abstract: A permanently-excited dynamoelectric machine includes a stator and a rotor supported for rotation about an axis. The stator has a winding system, which is embedded in grooves of a material forming a magnetic return path and interacts electromagnetically with permanent magnets of the rotor via an air gap between the stator and the rotor. The permanent magnets are disposed on the rotor, with each individual permanent magnet, on a side facing towards the air gap, having a North and South pole. The rotor, viewed in the circumferential direction, has a pole coverage by the permanent magnets of 100%, i.e. that the permanent magnets viewed in the circumferential direction, are arranged substantially without gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reiner Seufert, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20180262078
    Abstract: A housing includes a first housing unit which includes a first bearing shield, a flange, a stator laminated core arranged between the first bearing shield and the flange, and a coating which is made of stainless steel and applied by an additive manufacturing method so as to cover the first bearing shield, the stator laminated core, and the flange and thereby form a unitary structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eric Huter, Reiner Seufert, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20180233977
    Abstract: A bell-shaped rotor of an electric machine includes a cylindrical segment and a conical segment, wherein the cylindrical segment has magnetically active regions and nonmagnetic regions, where the rotor is produced at least partially via an additive production method, where the electric machine includes, in particular, an outer stator, an inner stator, which is arranged concentric to the outer stator within the outer stator, and the rotor, which is arranged concentric to the outer stator and the inner stator between the outer stator and the inner stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Benjamin VOLKMUTH, Rolf VOLLMER
  • Patent number: 10014737
    Abstract: A rotor for an electric machine is mounted for rotation about an axis and includes a plurality of permanent magnets placed on a radial outer surface of the rotor for forming at least one magnetic pole pair. An anisotropically-soft sintered magnetic material having an easy direction and a hard direction is located in at least one section of the rotor radially further inward than the plurality of permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Ralf Fischer, Korbinian Petermaier, Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 9954404
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator having 48 grooves and 48 tooth coils, and a rotor interacting with the stator. The rotor has eight magnetic poles along an external circumference of the rotor in an annular arrangement, with adjacent magnetic poles defining angular distances defined successively at 41.25°, 39.75°, 41.25°, 57.75°, 41.25°, 39.75°, 41.25° and 57.75°. The angular distances have a tolerance range of 0.4°. The electric machine has a pole arc between 0.6 and 0.7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 9935534
    Abstract: An electric machine includes an outer stator having a plurality of windings, an inner stator having a plurality of permanent magnets and arranged within the outer stator in concentric relationship to the outer stator, and a rotor arranged between the outer stator and the inner stator in concentric relationship to the outer and inner stators and movable relative to the outer and inner stators. The rotor includes a mounting element which is made from a non-magnetic material and has a plurality of recesses, with a magnetically soft segment being arranged in each of the recesses. A first cooling device cools the permanent magnets of the inner stator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20170288476
    Abstract: An active part for an electric machine can be configured as a stator or a rotor and includes at least two slots for arranging an electric coil winding of an electric coil. Arranged between the two slots is a crosspiece which is made of a material for conducting a magnetic flux through the electric coil which surrounds the crosspiece. The material has, at least in one area, magnetic anisotropy with an easy magnetization axis, which is oriented parallel or at least at an angle of less than 25° with respect to a coil axis of the coil, and a hard magnetization axis. The crosspiece is configured to form for each of the slots a slot wall which contains the material. The crosspiece includes a core which is made of an isotropic soft-magnetic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: RALF FISCHER, KORBINIAN PETERMAIER, ROLF VOLLMER
  • Patent number: 9673672
    Abstract: The aim is to propose an individual-segment rotor that is simple to construct and suitable for series production. Therefore, an individual-segment rotor having a plurality of laminated core segments (2) arranged in a star shape and a permanent magnet (1) between each pair of adjacent laminated core segments (2) is provided, whereby the laminated core segments and the permanent magnets are arranged in a hollow cylindrical assembly. The laminated core segments each have a plurality of individual sheets, which are rigidly connected to one another. The hollow cylindrical assembly has a groove on each of two outer edges, into which groove a ring (11) is inserted in order to fasten the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Lars Pannier, Jürgen Pawellek, Benjamin Volkmuth, Rolf Vollmer, Sebastian Waider
  • Patent number: 9568046
    Abstract: The invention relates to an easily mountable and highly dynamic radial bearing. According to the invention, a magnetic radial bearing for the rotatable mounting of a rotor (3) is provided, having a stator (2) that comprises several coil assemblies (6). The coil assemblies (6) are arranged around an axis (1) of the radial bearing in a circumferential direction. Each of the coil assemblies (6) has a laminated core (7) having single sheets. Each of the coil assemblies (6) further has an axial field coil (11) that is wound around the corresponding laminated core (7). The single sheets are stacked in the tangential direction in every laminated core (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Erich Bott, Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 9543805
    Abstract: An axial bearing device includes an annular electrical sheet arrangement having individual sheets which protrude radially outward. In addition, an electrical coil is provided in the axial bearing device and is inserted into the electrical sheet arrangement to generate a magnetic field in the electrical sheet arrangement. The electric sheet arrangement includes at least two concentric electrical sheet rings. All adjacent electrical sheets of each electrical sheet ring substantially abut at the inner circumference of the respective electrical sheet ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Rolf Vollmer, Markus Oestreich, Gunnar Schubert
  • Patent number: 9509185
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft, a plurality of permanent magnets arranged around the shaft in a circumferential direction for permanent excitation and attached to the shaft by an adhesive bond, and a flux conducting device provided for conducting a magnetic flux of the permanent magnets. The flux conducting device has a plurality of soft-magnetic flux conducting elements. Each flux conducting element is placed between two of the permanent magnets and adhesively bonded thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Daniel Mader, Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 9496779
    Abstract: A drive device includes a rotational drive device with a rotating stator and a rotating armature for displacing a shaft in a rotational movement and a linear drive device with a linear stator and a linear armature for displacing a shaft in a linear movement. The rotational drive device and the linear drive device are arranged axially one behind the other, with the rotating armature and the linear armature being connected to a respective shaft section. The shaft sections of the rotating armature and the linear armature are axially aligned and connected to each other in a rotationally fixed manner such that the shaft sections can move axially with respect to each other but they can only rotate together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Daniel Mader, Holger Schunk, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20160294229
    Abstract: An electric rotating machine includes an outer stator, and an inner stator arranged inside the outer stator in concentric relationship to the outer stator. The inner stator has a plurality of permanent magnets which contain iron-neodymium-boron. A rotor is arranged in concentric relationship to the outer stator and the inner stator between the outer stator and the inner stator. The rotor is configured for movement in relation to the outer stator and the inner stator and defines with the inner stator an internal air gap there between. Each permanent magnet of the inner stator has a north pole and a south pole on a side facing the internal air gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: BENJAMIN VOLKMUTH, ROLF VOLLMER
  • Patent number: 9461511
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator and an armature which together bound an air gap via which the stator interacts with a magnetic field of a magnetically active part of the armature. The armature includes as the magnetically active part permanent magnets and magnetically soft flux conducting elements which are arranged between the permanent magnets. The magnetically active part of the armature is in at least one direction of extent longer than a magnetically soft flux conducting device of a magnetically active part of the stator in the direction of extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 9401628
    Abstract: A permanently excited synchronous machine includes a stator; a winding system arranged in grooves of a laminated core of the stator and forming winding overhangs on end faces of the laminated core, and a rotor connected in fixed rotative engagement to the shaft and having ferrite magnets which extend axially beyond the end faces of the laminated core. The rotor electromagnetically interacts with the stator across an air gap there between during operation of the permanently excited synchronous machine to cause a rotation about an axis of rotation. A flux concentration element is provided radially across each of the ferrite magnets of a magnetic pole and bundles magnetic field lines of the ferrite magnet onto an axial length of the laminated core of the stator. The flux concentration elements and held by a fixing element on the ferrite magnets of a magnetic pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Wolfgang Schneider, Rolf Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20160172915
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator having 48 grooves and 48 tooth coils, and a rotor interacting with the stator. The rotor has eight magnetic poles along an external circumference of the rotor in an annular arrangement, with adjacent magnetic poles defining angular distances defined successively at 41.25°, 39.75°, 41.25°, 57.75°, 41.25°, 39.75°, 41.25° and 57.75°. The angular distances have a tolerance range of 0.4°. The electric machine has a pole arc between 0.6 and 0.7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: ROLF VOLLMER
  • Patent number: 9343935
    Abstract: A rotor of a permanently excited synchronous machine includes a shaft capable of rotating about an axis and a laminated core having an axial layering arrangement defined by planes which are aligned perpendicular to the axis. The laminated core has at least two layers of different geometry. A first layer has a plate with a closed outer contour at least at an outer periphery, and a second layer has plural plate segments. The first and second layers of the laminated core are arranged in an axial direction to form axial pockets in interspaces between the plate segments of the second layer and recesses formed radially within the outer contour of the first layer for receiving permanent magnets. An adhesive is provided in radial gaps formed at least in axial sections of the second layer between adjacent plate segments and the permanent magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Daniel Mader, Rolf Vollmer
  • Patent number: 9312732
    Abstract: A rotor includes a shaft and a plurality of permanent magnets which are arranged around the shaft in a circumferential direction for permanent excitation. At least one of the permanent magnets is attached to the shaft by a material joint or formfit. A flux conducting device for conducting a magnetic flux of the permanent magnets has a plurality of separate soft-magnetic flux conducting elements, with each flux conducting element being mounted between two of the permanent magnets and fixed thereto so as to be indirectly held in place on the shaft. At least one of the flux conducting elements has at least one contact area sized to cover an outer edge of one of the permanent magnets in the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Daniel Mader, Rolf Vollmer